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QOTD: Never Mind Your GPA — When’s Your IPO?
The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.
– Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”
HP Sets New Labor Guidelines in China
Targeting student labor.
StudyHall Offers New Site for Collaborative Course Work (And Books!)
New start-up StudyHall wants to offer a campus alternative to Blackboard — through students, rather than school administrators.
Why Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year
And why that’s not much at all.
Voices
Tech Titans Fund Undocumented Students
A group of Silicon Valley technology leaders, impatient with attempts to rewrite immigration laws, is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college, find jobs and stay in the country despite their illegal status.News Byte
Academic Social Network Raises Cash From Former Facebook Exec and Others
New York-based Coursekit, a social network for instructors to manage courses and interact with students, has raised $5 million in a first round. The round was led by Social+Capital Partnership, a firm started by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. Existing investor IA Ventures and new angel investors also participated. Coursekit, which became available in November, was founded by Joseph Cohen, 20, and two other undergraduate students at University of Pennsylvania.Voices
College One-Stop Shop: Chegg Buys Web Tutoring Service
Online textbook rental and education service Chegg Inc. has acquired Web tutoring service Student of Fortune, Inc. for cash and company stock as the start-up broadens its business to try to become a one-stop-shop for college students.News Byte
Missouri Limits Student-Teacher Social Networking
It’s one of those laws that could write a million headlines — variations on “Missouri Bans Students and Teachers From Friending Each Other on Facebook!” So what’s really going on? As part of a broader child sexual abuse prevention bill signed July 14, the state of Missouri will soon prohibit teachers from using personal sites that allow for private conversations with current or former students — something some local teachers think is a very bad idea.News Byte
A New Chapter for Chegg
Online textbook rental outfit Chegg is ready to take on a heavier load. The site is announcing today plans to offer a broader range of student services such as course selection advice, homework help and personalization. The expansion, taking advantage of its acquisition of CourseRank and Cramster, will advance Chegg’s social ambitions. “We know students’ class schedules, professors’ required reading and other materials in the class that are used,” said CEO Dan Rosensweig. “We have that history….Nobody else is able to bring this kind of personalized, relevant experience to students.”Voices
Apple Sees a Ripe Corporate Market
Apple Inc. will unveil Wednesday a new version of its computer operating software, a development that comes as the consumer-electronics giant makes a more aggressive move to expand in a market that has historically eluded it: corporate customers.